Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2019
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14 Protected fish
14 Protected fish
(1) For the purposes of section 19 (1) of the Act, the species of fish specified in Table 1 are protected fish.
(2) For the purposes of section 19 (4) of the Act, the possession of the protected fish specified in Table 2 is prohibited absolutely.
Table 1 Protected fish
| Common name | Species | | Marine and estuarine species | | Ballina Angelfish | Chaetodontoplus ballinae | | Blue Drummer, Bluefish | Girella cyanea | | Eastern Blue Devil, Bleekers Devil Fish | Paraplesiops bleekeri | | Elegant Wrasse | Anampses elegans | | Goldspotted Rockcod, Estuary Cod | Epinephelus coioides | | Ghostpipefish | Family Solenostomidae | | Queensland Groper, Giant Queensland Groper | Epinephelus lanceolatus | | Sandtiger Shark, Herbsts Nurse Shark | Odontaspis ferox | | Pipefish, Pipehorse, Seadragon, Seahorse | Family Syngnathidae | | Seamoth | Family Pegasidae | | Freshwater species | | Isopod | Crenoicus harrisoni |
Table 2 Protected fish—possession prohibited absolutely
| Common name | Species | | Marine and estuarine species | | Ballina Angelfish | Chaetodontoplus ballinae | | Blue Drummer, Bluefish | Girella cyanea | | Eastern Blue Devil, Bleekers Devil Fish | Paraplesiops bleekeri | | Elegant Wrasse | Anampses elegans | | Ghostpipefish | Family Solenostomidae | | Sandtiger Shark, Herbsts Nurse Shark | Odontaspis ferox | | Pipefish, Pipehorse, Seadragon, Seahorse | Family Syngnathidae | | Seamoth | Family Pegasidae | | Freshwater species | | Isopod | Crenoicus harrisoni |
cl 14: Am 2021 (482), Sch 1[2].